Chosing departure doesn't zoom in anymore

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
today I installed SU3 beta 1.5.3. After starting, using free flight and choosing an airport, the globe doesn’t zoom in anymore down to my airport. I have to zoom in manually now and sometimes it is hard to meet the point there the airport is situated. Is there a way to configure this zooming-behaviour?

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No I do not have the issue. Manually zoom just enough for the airport circles to appear, click the airport then click “zoom to details”. The map zooms down to airport level to the point that the airport fills my screen and I can select the runway without any manual zoom whatsoever. This just started working with 1.5.2 and continues to work now.

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This fix is from 1.5.2.0 release notes:

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  • Fixed camera zooming issues when selecting departure or arrival locations

So perhaps it’s either an intentional change or a bug introduced by this fix.

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When setting up a new flight after choosing an airport it no longer zooms in

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Ditto here. No auto-zoom in on an airport when I select it on the world map.

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It’s never zoom enough to take parking position. Why ? It was in 2020 and is must have.

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This definitely isn’t fixed in the update 3 beta. This is what I get when I select an airport.

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Still way zoomed out and there is no “Zoom to airport” option. You can zoom in using your mouse wheel but that takes forever and then often doesn’t centre on the selected airport. You then have to chase about to find the airport.

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Same problem here, on all airports - this is definitely not fixed.

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Wouldn’t it be better (i.e.working properly for a cold & dark start) if you could:

  1. Select an airport using ICAO or name.
  2. Let the map zero in on the airport circle.
  3. Click the airport circle and let the map zoom in such that the entire airport fills the screen.
  4. Select gate/ramp/parking spot.

As it is you can do the first two things easily enough, but clicking on the airport circle does not zoom in nearly far enough, and you still have to use the mouse to ‘Zoom-Move Map-Zoom-Move Map-Zoom-Move Map’ until you can see the airport in enough detail to start the flight where you want to.

I’m no programmer, but it seems like it would be easy enough to make “Zoom to Details” zoom all the way in to the airport details…

Of course, if you want to start at a custom location (say, for a bush flight starting in a field somewhere) you’d need to start the process with ‘Zoom-Move Map-Zoom-Move Map-Zoom-Move Map’. It would be awfully nice if ‘Zoom’ kept the world map centered, but that may be a function of the 2D representation of a sphere.

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Thank you for the bug report.

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